Jesus' Instructions on Prayer

In Matthew 6:5–8, we find Jesus' instructions on prayer. He instructs his true disciples on how different the prayer life of true believers should be from the Pharisees. Most of our discussions on prayer are very different from our Lord’s. We seem to emphasize and talk about things concerning prayer that Jesus never covers. It seems that we get caught up in the mechanics of prayer and never get to actually praying. Jesus does not instruct us with what we seem to fill our time talking about — nothing on the posture of prayer, the place of prayer, the time of prayer, or the length of prayer. None of those is the issue. Rather, Jesus is instructing us that prayer should be a way of life for the believer.